Luna Negra
José Luis Fernandez Ledesma Q : Al Filo (2001)**°
This is a completely different album, going from the first 5 tracks into the more ambient experimental territory, with otherworldly echoes, consonant vocal arrangements, acoustic guitar meanderings, with here and there some contemporary sounds. It gives the impression of a world outside ours, lonely, often with a certain peace but sometimes scarily different from ours, with avant-garde ambient sounds coming from between the doubt zone. As a sort of soundtrack this is pretty descriptive. This approach takes until the sixth track, “Ojo de venado”, to come back to earth, with a nice melodic, prog instrumental (with acoustic instruments and various electric guitars, percussion). The next track, “Las cuatro imágines” is a 25 minute instrumental, with a similar quietness, but with the peace more from a human form. With electrified echoes from slow guitar evolutions, with background whistle instruments, and so on, this creates a sort of landscape, while water flows in the background, and further on rhythms and more vocals and instruments are added. This still all happens as part of a slow evolution. The last track is something very strange, because it sounds as if we suddenly get an overload of horror sounds, of voices coming from somewhere else, hearable through some small 'passage' coming into our realms.
This album was a cooperation between Ledesma and his wife Margaritta Botello Flores, both listed with a wide range of acoustic instruments.
